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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2012, 10:05 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2012, 10:05 PM EDT (02:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2012, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Jefferson County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 201 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1107 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
012
WWUS82 KFFC 040205
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1005 PM EDT FRI AUG 3 2012
GAZ062-075-076-040245-
1005 PM EDT FRI AUG 3 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN WARREN...GLASCOCK AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES UNTIL 1045 PM EDT...
AT 1001 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER STAPLETONS CROSSROADS...MOVING NORTH AT 10
MPH.
THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS THEY MOVE
ACROSS WARREN...GLASCOCK AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES THROUGH 1045 PM EDT.
SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE STAPLETONS
CROSSROADS...STELLAVILLE...AVERA...WRENS...MATTHEWS AND STAPLETON.
HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3315 8226 3309 8228 3306 8256 3329 8255
3332 8240 3332 8234 3325 8224 3322 8223
TIME...MOT...LOC 0205Z 179DEG 8KT 3316 8247
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 8:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene | 43 min |
| Aug 3, 8:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 28 min |
| Aug 3, 8:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 8:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 9:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 9:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Spalding | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 9:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 41 min |
| Aug 4, 12:34 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Putnam | 26 min |
| Aug 4, 1:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock, Putnam | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 2:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 62 min |
| Aug 4, 3:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 33 min |
| Aug 4, 5:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 43 min |
| Aug 4, 7:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 27 min |
| Aug 4, 7:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 33 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.